David S. de Beer wrote:
>
> Ariel Faigon wrote:
>
> > In the case of perl it is easy to cross the firewall by simply
> > using a proxy. i.e. you don't need to SOCSify you perl since
> > the proxy (which is SOCKsified) does the job for you.
> >
> > Enclosed below is a (http) 'GET' script that uses one possible
> > SGI proxy when given the -e option. The method uses is the name
> > of the script so you may symlink it to 'HEAD' for example.
> >
> > --
> > Peace, Ariel
> >
> >
>
> Ariel,
>
> Wow, great :) Do you perhaps have a perl script for ftp as well?
>
> Also, I've looked around for a xftp client that works with socks and can also
> copy
> recursive directories. Is there something like this available?
>
> Thank you kindly.
>
> David
ncftp will do this David. You need the latest version though. The dist
on dist.engr:/sgi/hacks is NOT up to date and has problems going through
a SOCKS proxy.
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